It’s been a rough two months, and during it all, I’ve been thinking a lot about caregiving and compassion. By that I don’t just mean simply compassion toward others, as important as that is. I mean compassion toward oneself. In reflecting on this, I’ve begun to believe that guilt in a caregiving situation may be […]
Category Archives: Finding Your Balance
Compassion, Discernment, Discomfort Series, Finding Your Balance, Finding Your Own Path, Health & Fitness, Lessons Learned Along the Way, Self-Awareness
How Do You Treat Yourself When You Fall Down?
15
Dec
Dec
Failures, mistakes, embarrassing fumbles – we’ve all been there. We’ve all found ourselves in that agonizing moment of realizing that we just put our foot in it… or made a thoughtless error… or got rejected… or failed to produce our intended result – or, or, or… the list goes on. These things happen to all […]
Discernment, Finding Your Balance, Finding Your Own Path, Lessons Learned Along the Way, Self-Awareness
Setting Healthy Boundaries
15
Nov
Nov
In my last two articles, Finding Time When You’re Too Busy to Breathe and How to Make Choices When Everything Is a Top Priority, we dove into the challenges of finding time for yourself in the midst of a busy schedule full of obligations and important responsibilities and of making conscious choices between competing priorities. […]
Finding Your Balance, Inspiration, Lessons Learned Along the Way, Self-Awareness
How to Make Choices When Everything Is a Top Priority
30
Oct
Oct
In my last article, Finding Time When You’re Too Busy to Breathe, we explored how to define our personal goals in a flexible and sustainable way; how to integrate the activities to achieve those goals into an already busy schedule; and the values conflict that can arise when we’re having to make choices between incompatible activities […]
Discernment, Finding Your Balance, Health & Fitness, Lessons Learned Along the Way, Resilience, Self-Awareness
Finding Time When You’re Too Busy to Breathe
15
Oct
Oct
The majority of the coaching clients I work with are juggling numerous roles, projects, demands and priorities. Typically these include things like owning and running a business, being a parent, working a job, birthing a creative or entrepreneurial project, helping a spouse, caring for an aging family member or ailing friend, volunteering their time, and […]
Compassion, Finding Your Balance, Happiness, Inspiration, Resilience, Self-Awareness
Self-Care for Everyday Caregivers – Part 2: Implementing Self-Care
30
Sep
Sep
In Self-Care for Everyday Caregivers – Part 1, we discussed the applicability of concepts like compassion fatigue and burnout, which are familiar terms in the helping professions, to parents and everyday caregivers. We also looked at the imbalance that can occur when our compassion vessels have their caring spigot open without being adequately refilled – […]
Compassion, Finding Your Balance, Inspiration, Resilience, Self-Awareness
Self-Care for Everyday Caregivers – Part 1: Symptoms of Burnout
15
Sep
Sep
Do you ever struggle with making time for self-care despite signs of burnout? Are you so busy caring for others that you either forget to practice self-care or find yourself putting it off indefinitely? You are not alone. In my coaching practice, I work with many women who are juggling their role as a parent […]
Discernment, Finding Your Balance, Get Motivated, Health & Fitness, Lessons Learned Along the Way, Self-Awareness
Being Fully Present for Daily Life – The Art of Showing Up
30
Jul
Jul
There’s a phenomenon that takes place when exercising that’s been catching my attention lately. I’m talking about the tendency to be less than fully present for our immediate experience. This can come in a couple different forms. How Absence Emerges Anything that takes us outside ourselves distracts us from the actual experience we’re having – what’s […]
Compassion, Discernment, Finding Your Balance, Finding Your Own Path, Happiness, Inspiration, Lessons Learned Along the Way, Resilience, Self-Awareness
Restorying Your Life
15
Jul
Jul
Have you ever wished that you could live a different life? Or felt tired of the story you were telling about the one you have? When we cast ourselves as a desperate victim, angry instigator, or caterer to everyone else’s whims and needs, we may not realize it, but we quickly wear a groove for […]
Compassion, Discernment, Finding Your Balance, Finding Your Own Path, Happiness, Inspiration, Resilience, Self-Awareness
The Secret to Liking Yourself
15
Jun
Jun
One of the things I love most about coaching is the privilege of holding space for someone as she dives into her own experience. As the relationship deepens and trust is tested and found to hold strong, we go on inspiring journeys together. Often the journey is one I think of as “the road to […]